page_title: Biggleswade railway station
section_title: Gallery
hierarchical_section_title: Biggleswade railway station / Gallery
caption_attribution_description: English: Biggleswade railway station, Beds. The Great Northern Railway opened in 1850, and Biggleswade was the first town in Bedfordshire to have a mainline station.
context_page_description: Biggleswade railway station serves the town of Biggleswade in Bedfordshire, England. It is on the East Coast Main Line, 41 miles 13 chains from London King's Cross. Biggleswade is managed and served by Great Northern.
  Biggleswade station was originally built in 1850 for the Great Northern railway. This made Biggleswade the first town in Bedfordshire to have a mainline railway station. The original station consisted of two lines but was rebuilt in 1901 to allow the present four line arrangement to be built.
  Biggleswade has two large platforms and four main rail lines, a pair of "up and down" slow lines used by stopping services and a pair of "up and down" fast lines used by fast InterCity East Coast passing through at high speed and Great Northern services at peak times running non-stop to/from London. A fifth line extends off the "down" slow line which links into the remaining sidings used by the Plasmor block company.
  The station's platforms have been lengthened so that they can cope with 12 car trains, which are now serving the station. The station currently has four 12-car services in the morning and two in the evening.
caption: The station entrance in 2006
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